meme time
Since I haven't done one in a while...thanks Jason!
The Big Read said at some point that on average, adults have only read six books on this list. So:
Copy this list, remove my yeses and nos and add your own notes if you like.
NOTE: I don't remember a lot of high school, so I'm sure there are a lot of 'great works' that I read that I simply don't recall.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Yes (and played Mrs. Bennet on stage in the Jane Kendall version)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Yes
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - I think so?
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - No
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Yes
6 The Bible - Yes
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - No
8 1984 - George Orwell - Yes
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - no
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Probably
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - *sigh* yes.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - No
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - All the sonnets, most of the plays, a few other poems
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - No
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks- No
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Yes
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - No
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- No
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell- no
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - nope
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens- No
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy- no
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams- Yes (all 5 of the trilogy, plus "Salmon of doubt")
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - No
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -no
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Yes *shudder*
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Yep (and "Through the looking glass")
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- yes!
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Probably
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Yes
34 Emma - Jane Austen - No
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - No
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Yes
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - No
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - No
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - No
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - All of them!
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell- Yes
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - nope
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - No
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins- No
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - No
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - I don't think so
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Yup
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan- No
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - No
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- partially
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - No
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - no
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth- No
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon- No
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - no
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Yes!
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - No
60 Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - no
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - No
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt- No
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - No
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - No
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- yes, and lost my copy.
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy- No
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - Yes (and "edge of reason")
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie- No
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - No
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Yuppers
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - Yeah. rather snoozy.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett- Yep
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson- No
75 Ulysses - James Joyce- No
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath- no, thank heavens.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome- no
78 Germinal - Emile Zola- No
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray- No
80 Possession - AS Byatt- No
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Yes. And umpteen stage versions.
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell- No
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker- No
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro- No
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert- no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry- No
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - Yeah
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - No
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Yes
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton- No
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Yes indeed
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Yes. And in French. And seen the Frenglish play version.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks- No
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - yes, many years ago.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole- no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - No
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Some of the adventures.
98 Hamlet - Shakespeare - Yes, so many times I don't bother reading it, I just read my notes.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - No, but I did serve as ASM for the "School Edition", which was more than enough.
The Big Read said at some point that on average, adults have only read six books on this list. So:
Copy this list, remove my yeses and nos and add your own notes if you like.
NOTE: I don't remember a lot of high school, so I'm sure there are a lot of 'great works' that I read that I simply don't recall.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Yes (and played Mrs. Bennet on stage in the Jane Kendall version)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Yes
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - I think so?
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - No
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Yes
6 The Bible - Yes
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - No
8 1984 - George Orwell - Yes
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - no
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Probably
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - *sigh* yes.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - No
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - All the sonnets, most of the plays, a few other poems
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - No
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks- No
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Yes
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - No
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- No
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell- no
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - nope
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens- No
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy- no
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams- Yes (all 5 of the trilogy, plus "Salmon of doubt")
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - No
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -no
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Yes *shudder*
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Yep (and "Through the looking glass")
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- yes!
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Probably
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Yes
34 Emma - Jane Austen - No
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - No
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Yes
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - No
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - No
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - No
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - All of them!
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell- Yes
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - nope
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - No
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins- No
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - No
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - I don't think so
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Yup
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan- No
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - No
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- partially
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - No
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - no
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth- No
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon- No
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - no
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Yes!
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - No
60 Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - no
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - No
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt- No
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - No
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - No
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- yes, and lost my copy.
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy- No
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - Yes (and "edge of reason")
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie- No
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - No
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Yuppers
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - Yeah. rather snoozy.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett- Yep
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson- No
75 Ulysses - James Joyce- No
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath- no, thank heavens.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome- no
78 Germinal - Emile Zola- No
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray- No
80 Possession - AS Byatt- No
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Yes. And umpteen stage versions.
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell- No
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker- No
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro- No
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert- no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry- No
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - Yeah
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - No
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Yes
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton- No
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Yes indeed
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Yes. And in French. And seen the Frenglish play version.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks- No
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - yes, many years ago.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole- no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - No
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Some of the adventures.
98 Hamlet - Shakespeare - Yes, so many times I don't bother reading it, I just read my notes.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - No, but I did serve as ASM for the "School Edition", which was more than enough.